Hong Kong Is Bracing For A Burst Of
Visitors From Mainland China Seeking The
Latest mRNA Vaccines Up Until Now
Chinese Citizens Have Only Had Access To
Chinese-made Vaccines That Have Mostly
Been A Week In Terms Of Its Efficacy
Against Coveting 19. They Have Not Had
Access To mRNA, Vaccines The Latest Known
As The Bivalent Jab That Covers Both The
Omicron And Earlier Coronavirus Strains
The Only Jurisdictions Under China
Distributing mRNA Vaccines Have Been
Hong Kong And Macau Now That Beijing Has
Lifted Pandemic-related Border
Restrictions There's An Influx Of
Medical Tourists Coming Into Town
Mainland Chinese Who Have Wanted To Be
Immortalized With Emma And Their Cover
Vaccines And Now At Long Last Allowed In
Hong Kong Yoko, Lee Was Among The First
A Batch Of Recipients In This Private
The Clinic's Also The First Foreign
Vaccine She Has Had Since The Pandemic
There Is No Bivalent mRNA Vaccine In
Mainland China's Foreign Statistics Showed
Bivalent mRNA Vaccines Provide
Greater Protection Against Infection And
Severe Illness It's Also A Birthday Gift
For Myself Today
Getting An M Or Any Job Wasn't
Possible Until China Opened Its
Borders And In Particular Hong Kong
Mr. Paul Made A Trip From Shenzhen A
Southern City Neighboring Hong Kong On
The First Day Of The Border Reopening
The 64 Euro Had Already Had Two Shots Of
China's Domestic Vaccine Sinovac, But He
Hopes Buy On Tax By A Valence Booster Shot
Will Protect Him Against The Current
Outbreak
People My Age In China Are Worried
About Getting Infected
I'm More Confident In German And
American Medicine Because It's Developed
With A Different Technology
Many Of My Friends Who Took Inactivated
Chinese Vaccines Were Infected
Vaccines Are Free For Hong Kong
Residents But Travelers Have To Pay 240
To 360 Us Dollars To Private Medical
Groups For One Mr. And A Coveted By
Valence Shots, Nevertheless Many Mainlands
Chinese See A Trip To Hong Kong As
Worthwhile And Hong Kong's Private
Clinics And Hospitals Expect A Growing
Demand, This Medical Center Is Preparing
To Inoculate Up To A Thousand People Per
Day After Receiving Hundreds Of
Inquiries Not Only From Individuals But
Also, Travel Agencies There Are A Lot Of
People Got Infections Recently In The
Last Few Weeks Or Last A Month Or Two
They Cannot Get This Ship, Which Is A
Booster Dose Immediately They Have To
Wait For At Least Three Months, So We
Will Expect A Slow Increase In The Number In
In The Next Few Weeks Or Two Months And
Then There Might Be A Peak Coming On In
March Or April
The City Is Expected To Be The Top
Destination Of Chinese Vaccine Tourism
Joining Us Is Epidemiologist Ben Cowing
For The School Of Public Health In Hong
Kong University, Thank You For Joining
The Program
I Guess My First Question Is Given The
Weak Efficacy Of The Synovial Vaccine
Does It Make Sense For Those Coming From
Mainland China To Have Just One Bivalent
Booster Or Is There A Talk About Simply
Starting Over From Zero, So To Speak And
Putting Folks On That Initial Two-shot
Regimen
Well If You Remember Earlier In The
Pandemic When The Vaccine Trial Results
Were First Coming Out Sinovac, And Sign
Up On The Two Inactivated Vaccines From
China Had A Relatively Lower Efficacy
Compared To The mRNA Vaccines For
Example But Now With Omicron The
The Situation Has Changed The
Inactivated Vaccines Are Not Very Good
At Stopping Infection But Neither Defies
A Vaccine Or The Modern Vaccine Uh All
The Vaccines Available Including The
Inactivated Vaccines Are Very Good At
Stopping Severe Disease And That's The
The Main Concern For Many People Is That
They Don't Get Severely Covered, So I'm Not
Sure, There's Justification To Asking People
Who's Got The Inactivated Vaccine To
Start Over Again But Certainly, It Would
Be Good Advice To Get A Booster
Dose From Time To Time And The Bivalent
Booster Is The Most Recent Update So
That It's The Most Recent Vaccine
Available
Interesting, That Was Something I Was
Personally Curious About So How Is The
The Public Health System Holding Up With The
The New Influx Of Visitors
Uh So In Hong Kong You Mean
Yes
So In Hong Kong, We Do Have A Lot Of
People Coming Over The Border From
Mainland China dialysis
Now
But There's Not A Lot Of Severe Covet
Coming In Uh As For Mile Covid
Mostly, They Don't Need To Have Medical
Attention So There's No Indication Of
Any Additional Pressure On Our
Healthcare System From The Additional
Arrivals From The Mainland Now We Know
In Some Areas Of The Mainland Hospitals
Are Really Under Pressure With A Lot Of
Cases Of Severe Covid, But Those Tend To
Older People May Be Frailer Maybe
Coming From An Elderly Home, Those Are
Not The Types Of People That Are Taking
The Trip To Come Over The Border To Hong
Kong At The Moment, Uh So We're Not
Seeing Cases Of Severe Covid Among
Travelers
Um Are The Hospital Systems In Hong Kong
Planning Contingency Though Um In Terms
Of The Possibility Of More People
Showing Up, Especially Because of The
Information From Mainland China Is So
Limited In Terms Of How Bad Things Can
Be In Certain Pockets Of The Country
Well Obviously There Are A Lot Of
Surveillance, A Lot Of Monitoring And A
A Lot Of Planning And Preparation Just In
A Necessary Case But With The
The Current Quota In Place Limits The
Number Of People That Can Come Every Day
And The Fact That There's Really No
Severe Or Minimal Severe Among Those
Travelers Expected, I Don't Think There
Will Be Contingency Plans In The
Hospitals Domestically In Hong Kong
We Do Have Pressure On Our Hospitals Not
Only From People With Covid, But From
People With Other Respiratory Infections
So We Do Need To Think About Uh Doing
Better In Terms Of Dealing With The
Winter Surge, But That's Not A Specific
The Issue Relating To Travelers From
Mainland China
Great, And What's The Latest On Whether
Um, The mRNA Vaccine Is Going To Make Its
A Way Into Mainland China And What The
The Chinese Government Has Said About
Potential Rollout On That Front
Uh No News On That Front They've Had The
Opportunity Or The Option To Start Using
The Biotech Vaccine, The FISA, Vaccine In
Mainland China, For Quite Some Time
But They Haven't Chosen To Do That
There's A Mainland Chinese mRNA Vaccine
Which Is Now Being Used In Indonesia But
I Don't Think That's Being Used In
Mainland China At The Moment, So We'll
Have To See I'm Still Waiting For More
Information On That Particular Vaccine
What's Being Used In Indonesia And I
Think It Would Be A Good Idea For
Mainland China To Start Using The
The Biotech Vaccines May Be The Modern
A Vaccine As Well, The Two Very Effective
mRNA Vaccines, But There Are No Signs That
What's Going To Happen At The Moment
Ben Cowling, Thank You So Much For The
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